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Shared Opinion | 16 May 2009

All that has really changed is that we’re all angry now. It isn’t just students who are cross

issue 16 May 2009

All that has really changed is that we’re all angry now. It isn’t just students who are cross

I’m worried that we are running out of people to hate. It’s all moving too fast. In the space of just a few months, we’ve had bankers and the BBC and the police and now MPs. What’s left for the summer? It’s barely 18 months since we did the House of Lords; we can’t possibly do them again already. Nurses? Trains? Traffic wardens? Something more left-field? A summer of hate against the RSPCA?

Mind you, maybe I’m being too hasty. Because, and humour me here, just close your eyes and try to imagine a copy of the Daily Telegraph. Look at the headline. It’s about MPs’ expenses, isn’t it? Now knuckle your eyelids, shake your head and visualise another.

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